Re: Maybe a way to get a few more developpers to work on Guix ?

[Fannys]

pinoaffe <pinoaffe@gmail.com> writes:

> Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 
> <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>> ... code generation through LLMs. This could itself help Guix generate
>> (and fix) package definitions.
>
> I really don't think that that'd be a good match for Guix.  Writing
> package definitions is easy, can be assisted with a snippet (such as
> provided in /path/to/guix/etc/snippets/yas/scheme-mode/guix-package) and
> writing a package definition takes hardly more work than verifying that
> an LLM-provided package definition is reasonable.
>
> In other words, I don't think a LLM could make it easier/faster to write
> package definitions.
>
> Kind regards,
> pinoaffe

Yeah agreed.

It just changes what we need from developers to people that verify that
the code makes sense from the LLM model. So doesn't really seem to solve
much for us.

Regards,
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